You may have seen tonight’s Australian Story about the Toowong breast cancer cluster.

It has raised some very interesting questions about long term exposure to EMF radiation, particularly low-frequency EMF. What are everyone’s thoughts?

The topic of Niccolo Machiavelli came up in random conversation today, along the lines of political dominance and power games. Machiavelli’s works, such as The Prince, have survived in popular culture for hundreds of years. One wonders whether their longevity is due to their extreme viewpoints, or enduring validity?

Hmm. Was doing some reading tonight on the prevalence of breast cancer in Australian women and have to admit I was a bit shocked. It’s amazing to think that you have about a one in 30 chance of contracting this, dropping to less than one in 6 if you have a family history. Apparently there’s gene tests that can be done to see if you have faulty TP53 or BRCA1/2 genes which give you a much increased risk of contraction. But would you want to know? Is having a statistical inclination to contract a disease enough to make plans based on the fact you might contract it?